The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-04

"When Dalton depot was burned up, Febru-
airy, 1885, he refused to put up o decent one,
and he deiantly wrote w. Il. Farrar that the
concern he was putting up he would only need
four years, and he should put up the inferior
thing to save his money. So much for letting
him dictate the terms of the lease to his man
Friday alias II. Il. Bullock
Governor Brown tells Governor Gordon he
was obliged to invest enormously i'll sidetracks
especially in Tennessoe-for which he ex-
poets pay. Suppose the lessees are shown to
have been renting the states property in Ten
nessee for other uses than the railroad requires
what then2
In 1880 they charge the state witha new side
$40
In 1881 they. charge the state with new side
5,5E
"Governor Brown declares the state has not
kept faith with the lessees. Why? Because
in the year 1871, said state did investigate the
lease, and caused him to eXpend in its defense
the sum of $4,000, paid to BENZ. II. Hill, its
attorney Because the state in 1874, issued
fl fa' to compel this corporation to pay taxes
demanded of other corporations in the state,
and Governor Brown was forced to pay b. H.
Hill and Julius l.. Brown, $4,000 to defend
the lease against said unlawful fl fa.' Be-
cause said state in 1876 begun another investi-
CATION and caused him to pay McCay & Trippe
$2,6S7, to defend the lease from the legislature.
Also, for $4,000 paid to Julius Brown, Il. III.
Hill and r. j. Moses to defend tax ii ia.
Also y l3,UUU PAID OUT TO brown, d. Is.
Cumming, j. M. Smith and A. IL. LaWton.'
Governor Brown wishes tho state to refund
S56,6S766 that ne has paid over to Julius
Brown, attorney, and u. Ii. Hill and j, ID.
Cumming, lessees, as well as other attorneys,
This demand is most extraordinary. Where is
its eIgal2 The state must pay costs and law
yer fees, when she trys to look into her own
business a r'
Governor Brown. in the year 1879, emf
ployed lobbyists and venal newspapers to adj
a fl,nya off flff nas1
money to control tho action of the representa-
tiyes of the people, when Investigation into
the lease was demanded Governor Brown
was sworn before legislative committee in
the year 1876, and there testified that he spent
$21 600 on such parties to influence the legis-
lature and public opinion ands that he did
secretly conspire thus to defeat investigation
at such time and manner by the use of money.
by his own sworn statements, he hired
attorneys to talk to the members, without
allowing them to suppose these lobbyists were
thus hired, and the only restriction he placed
on such hired persons was not to buy liquor
with the money, and make the legislators
drunk while they we're doing such work. BY
his own sworn statements, he used newspapers
and their owners to advocate the lease and paid
secretly for this work, the public having no
knowledge OF this private influence OF the
money, which moulded their opinions and
their Judgment.
WHAT THE STATE IS NOW CONCERNED ABOUT.
a. That the railroad may be sold away, out
OF her possession, property which Governor
Brown declared, when an unbiased judge, to
be the best it ever had or will ever own. He
then declared it would hurl from power any
governor or legislature which would order or
permit such sale,
"2. That he may be'using his money in the
same way, at this time, that he did in the year
1872 to mould the legislature and public opinion
in the matter.
49, That the state which owns more or less
land adjacent to the roadsbed may find diff
Guilty in recovering her own. She has eleven
acres opposite the depot in Chattanooga and
right of way from Chattanooga to the Tennes-
see river, besides more or less acres about and
contiguous to, nearly every station on the
Western and Atlantic railroad,
20. That the money which certain railroads
would pay for this valuable property-would
be absorbed and spent-leaving the state minus
her property which she could always use as a
collateral in any emergency.
''5. That the late threat used by President
Brown was intended to raise smoke in one
place, to conceal crafty plot in another, and
that some future investigation may show how
much has been secured % the states injury.
"The lessees must prepare sworn state
ment as to how much Of their money they IN
vested, before they make such a claim. If
they made the earnings Of the road pay all
debts-and invested not dollar in cash--what
claim have they? If the state declined to
allow betterments, and Governor Brown
abandOns the law of contracts, to set up acct
dents and mistakes, undue advantage 10 the
state, to their hurt, they have grounds for
equity. If the state has lost her revenues by
unfair contracts; If tle lease act was violated
in allowing the Nashville and Chattanooga
and the Louisville and Nashville to own
shares if oyergrown salaries are paid In de-
fia NeS>sf the lease act, then the state may en-
ter into an arrangement TO claim equity. 1t
viii then be fair 10 both sides. If Brown &
Co. abandon their contract TO obtain better
ments, they mnst do equity. Then sworn
statement must be had of all expenses, lobby